Recap of the year 2018

The year 2019 has been full on for some time now and it already feels that the winter is done and the spring is just around the corner.

With a little pride in our eyes and happy smiles on our faces, we took a final look back to 2018 and what really happened at Codemate.

Grab a cup of coffee and take a moment to revel the highlights and accomplishments of the year 2018 with us.

The business figures and development paths

Let’s get the numbers sorted out first: Codemate’s turnover in 2018 was 7 Meur which means a growth of 31 % compared to the year before. Yay! And in terms of profit generation, we have continued to be a very profitable company.

The year was especially highlighted with design and agile thinking, bigger customers projects, and fresh breeze from the mobile tech world as we grew strong in Flutter.

We started to re-think and re-shape our service processes to benefit our customers´ businesses even better. The mission statement of Codemate was fine-tuned to say that we create solutions that enhance performance, convenience and quality in real life. Sounds good?

The team

In addition to business numbers, Codemate team grew and got stronger in 2018 even though we also had to say goodbye to some people heading to new challenges in start-ups or product houses. The total headcount of Codemate at the end of the year was 92. When you add the people who joined at the beginning of 2019, we are not far from full 100!

To keep things ever so fresh and to enable personal growth, we launched Operation Wombat for the entire organization – a process that is based on the idea of an unlimited budget for attending conferences and training. Feel free to steal the idea for your organization.

To service the growing workforce, Codemate’s Helsinki office got a neat expansion at Kaisaniemenkatu 1B, and the Thai beach office got a much-envied sauna next to the swimming pool. The Oulu office, the Riverside office, meeting rooms were splashed with paint and already at the very beginning of the year, the Bangkok office got more office space. And Jamboards, we got Jamboards!

The valued customers

Over the 12 years of existential glory, Codemate has worked with hundreds of companies in over 600 projects. Many of our customers see us as a long-term digital partner. Therefore, we seem to flow smoothly together from one development project to another. And that’s how it should be in order to fully be able to bring value to our customer in the constantly changing marketplace.

From the year 2018, we are especially hyped about Oikotie, Restis, Kotikatu365, Lehto, Teosto, AC Oulu, Tradeka… just to name a few customers that we have worked with. We also made good progress in working with international, large corporate customers.

Just before the Santa arrived, we asked our customers to give us feedback on how we have served them. The results made us blush: the overall average score was 4.73/6.00. Thank you for your wonderful feedback that also included hints for how we can improve. We would like to let all our customers know that your feedback is received and that our plan is to keep on improving.

To Singapore with Reaktor

The big expansion news of the year 2018 was definitely Singapore. In September 2018, we opened an office there withReaktor to serve large corporations that are going through the digital transformation and who would like to tune their organization to higher clock speed, increasing overall agility.

With the new office in the number-one business hub of South East Asia, Codemate and Reaktor bring design, agile coaching and digital transformation services to Singapore with a Scandinavian twist. With this offering, we aim not to be “yet another software development vendor” in the area.

Our goal in Singapore is to deliver business value and build sustainable customer relationships with the customers in the region. Read all about the Singapore expansion from here.

To the next level – Creative Tech Agency

We counted over 30 internal development projects in 2018. One of the key projects was “Consultancy School” – a training program for the entire organization that made our thinking shift more towards the value creation.

And the list of ideas how to further develop our operations in 2019 is impressive. We have a good buzz ongoing!

Major strategy and brand development work were already kick-started in late 2018 and you can expect to see different sounding and looking Codemate later on this year. At the same time, we are re-formulating our service concept to make sure our value delivery to our customers is top-notch.